Posted on 08/25/2021 7:23:59 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
In virtually every realm of public policy, Americans embrace policies which they know will kill people, sometimes large numbers of people. They do so not because they are psychopaths but because they are rational: they assess that those deaths that will inevitably result from the policies they support are worth it in exchange for the benefits those policies provide. This rational cost-benefit analysis, even when not expressed in such explicit or crude terms, is foundational to public policy debates — except when it comes to COVID, where it has been bizarrely declared off-limits.
The quickest and most guaranteed way to save hundreds of thousands of lives with policy changes would be to ban the use of automobiles, or severely restrict their usage to those authorized by the state on the ground of essential need (e.g., ambulances or food-delivery vehicles), or at least lower the nationwide speed limit to 25 mph. Any of those policies would immediately prevent huge numbers of human beings from dying. Each year, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), “1.35 million people are killed on roadways around the world,” while “crashes are a leading cause of death in the United States for people aged 1–54.” Even with seat belts and airbags, a tragic number of life-years are lost given how many young people die or are left permanently and severely disabled by car accidents. Studies over the course of decades have demonstrated that even small reductions in speed limits save many lives, while radical reductions — supported by almost nobody — would eliminate most if not all deaths from car crashes.....
(Excerpt) Read more at greenwald.substack.com ...
That description of the government is scary accurate.
Covid, vaccines, and open borders are the nuclear option to save social security Ponzi. Open borders to pay into social security, kill off elderly to not pay out. Ponzi scheme stays solvent
They won’t do a cost benefit analysis because the results would not be to their benefit and the cost too high.
Spot on
Ponzi
Slippery slope...if government starts doing actual cost/benefit analysis then they might start applying it to things like Medicare...over age 70? Then no hip/knee/shoulder replacement for you! Too costly for your life expectancy!
Ask how many suicides has the policy created; more than the deaths from COVID maybe?
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